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Fletcherism

[flech-uh-riz-uhm] / ˈflɛtʃ əˌrɪz əm /
NOUN
mastication
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Fletcherism held a good deal of intuitive appeal.

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Nutrition faddist John Harvey Kellogg, whose sanatorium briefly embraced Fletcherism, tried to re-enliven mealtimes by hiring a quartette to sing “The Chewing Song,” an original Kellogg composition, while diners grimly toiled.

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In the United States and Europe, administrators at workhouses, prisons, and schools flirted with Fletcherism.

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Together, he and Chittenden did their best to convince Hoover to make Fletcherism part of U.S. economic policy, thereby justifying a two-thirds reduction in the amount of civilian rations shipped overseas.

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In 1979, a pair of Minneapolis researchers put Fletcherism to the test.

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